Starting to Paint Portraits

by Bernard Dunstan

Book Overview

Portrait painting handbook; complete instructions for beginners; materials, commissions; proportions, tones, planes, and getting a likeness; How to pose the sitter; and backgrounds. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800873823
• ISBN13: 9780800873820
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Studio Vista
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the basics

This little book goes far beyond portraiture. In a way it does not actually deal with portraiture, but in actuality is a most outstanding guide to getting "into" painting. The first book that a learner/discoverer of painting should have.